Goto Seizaburo (Attributed to) - Cloisonné enamel dish
A cloisonné enamel dish worked in gilt wire with a radiating petal-like design of natural and geometric motifs.
Unsigned
Diameter 45.5cm
Meiji period, circa 1880
For a dish with similar geometric patterns and a reverse of identical large gilt scrolls, scattered with comparable motifs see Japanese Cloisonné, Gregory Irvine, pl 31. This dish is also unsigned and was acquired by the Victoria and Albert museum in 1881, when it was attributed to Seizaburo Goto of Honcho-dori, Yokohama.
£8,500